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I’ve added a widget in the sidebar in which I’m going to list OSS projects I’ve given money to. I have two principal goals for doing this. First, I want to promote software I’m sponsoring. The publicity I provide is quite modest but it is better than nothing. Secondly, I want [...]

As much as I liked the theme I selected to give a style to my blog different than the default style, I had some issues with it. I took 20 minutes today to make it more appealing to me. I especially disliked the font selection and I was not happy with the way [...]

A White Bear recently wrote about her seekrit vice: the reality show Age of Love. Since I have not watched the show, I do not have an opinion about its contents. However, A White Bear’s observations about the contents of the show are compatible with what I would expect to find, if I [...]

Consumerist recently reported that Subway is now including the calories per serving on their menus. This is great. A good deal of people must watch what they eat. I myself am included in that group. I need to be careful about my calorie intake because too many calories easily translate to [...]

Yesterday was my wife’s birthday. For the occasion, I shook off my laziness and baked her a lemon meringue pie. It was a semi-success. The taste was perfect. However, the pie crust did not turn out well. I made a special crust because my wife and I wanted her daughter [...]

Well, the move to wordpress is for all intents and purposes done…
Anybody who gets feeds through RSS, Atom or whatever should go to the main page of the new blog, scroll to the bottom of the page and subscribe to the feeds that are down there. I’ve set up redirection from the old pages [...]

I’ve decided to switch my blog software from dotclear to wordpress. Dotclear 1 is not good enough anymore. Spam management in particular is a real pain in the ass. Dotclear 2 has been in beta forever. Wordpress gives me what I want and has a bigger community than dotclear.
The switch [...]

For my RSS needs, I’ve decided to move from Sage to Brief. Sage’s development has been stagnating for quite a while now and just did not do what I need anymore. Brief does everything I want and does it much better than Sage ever did.

From this article:
Separately, the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged violating its own policies when it assigned only one controller to the Lexington tower.

The reason the FAA established a policy requiring two controllers is that the FAA itself foresaw that having only one controller on duty is not enough to ensure the safety of travellers. Whoever [...]

Un soi contracté ne peut apprécier le lent et doux ressac des heures, la respiration du monde, le va-et-vien copulatoire qui engendre tout à chaque instant. Dans ce ressac, cette respiration, cette copulation où trouve-t-on ce soi contracté qui n’apprécie rien?